The international Margaret Atwood Society was founded in 1984 and in 1992 became an allied organization that meets in conjunction with the Modern Language Association. A true Canadian icon of popular culture, Margaret Atwood's fiction and prose leaves the reader with much to discuss. Murder in the Dark is a striking series of prose poems which illustrates both the author's affection for and mastery of the oxymoron. Sketched in five sections, there is a definite progression of anger, disillusionment, and despair, yet there remains a constant nicker of hope and the will to believe. Steven Heighton, in an afterward of Murder in the Dark, writes: "Endless light is like an endless honeymoon: an illusion sold to fools. We believe in this light because we've been underground with the writer, in the caves, the graves, and the.....
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